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Manufacturing and logistics sites for CDs and other merchandise incorporate activities to promote sustainability
Aug.10,2022
Solar power self-consignment system
SMS currently owns 13 buildings to produce and distribute packaged products such as CDs and DVDs and other domestic entertainment merchandise in Yaizu City and Yoshida Town, Haibara-gun in Shizuoka Prefecture. In the district, plenty of manufacturing and logistics sites belonging to a variety of companies are located on either side of the Oigawa River.
The JARED Oigawa Center, one of those buildings located in Yaizu City, has a photovoltaic power generation facility on its roof with a capacity of around 1.7 Mega Watts. While operating on the power it produces, the logistics center sends, or self-consigns, the excess energy via the power utility’s grid to the Shizuoka Production Center, a factory located across the Oigawa River in Yoshida Town, for the complete self-consumption of the generated power.
In September 2018, Sony Group joined RE100, a global initiative committed to 100% renewable electricity, and strives to use only renewable energy sources for its operations by 2030. The system of the JARED Oigawa Center was developed as part of this initiative.
In June 2022, another photovoltaic power generation facility was installed on the roof of the Oigawa Production Center, a factory to manufacture phonograph records, to enhance the capacity of the system.
Health Fair
As one of our initiatives that help employees lead a healthy life, the manufacturing and logistics group promotes working style reforms for all employees in different life stages to continue working in a good, energized form. The group, where employees range in ages from their 20s to 60s, aims to achieve an “aging-friendly” working environment.
Its management always pays attention to workers’ health; at factories and logistics centers, they are encouraged to do simple exercises at certain times to keep in shape and refresh themselves. In June 2022, the group held a Health Fair in cooperation with local authorities to exhibit enlightening materials about the prevention of osteoporosis, offer basic checkups with health and exercise guidance by public health nurses, and provide calcium supplements (calcium wafers).
On the day of the fair, we saw employees avidly reading posters on the walls of the factories and logistics centers describing the risk of osteoporosis. Many of them also had a bone density test to check their figures with renewed interest.
An employee taking a basic checkup
A public health nurse providing health guidance after the checkup
Employees reading a poster about the prevention of osteoporosis
Aside from the solar power self-consignment system and the Health Fair, some more initiatives for better sustainability are also in place. For example, the factories have several posters put up on their walls featuring Hiyari Hatto-kun (near-miss-accident boy), SMS’s own character created to raise workers’ awareness of health and safety. Now the character is fairly familiar to the employees and its contribution to changing the way they think is largely felt.
SMS is also making efforts to preserve nature and the ecosystem, setting up birdhouses on its premises to protect wild birds endemic to Japan and help them breed. While, unfortunately, its factories in Shizuoka have not seen nesting yet, the Ibaraki factory has confirmed several cases where birds nest in the houses. We will follow this and other initiatives by the manufacturing and logistics group for future reports.
A birdhouse handmade by factory workers and set up on the premises
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